Fedora 11 Talking Points

[Jack Aboutboul]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:21:15PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>   
>> Jack Aboutboul wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> In anticipation of the alpha release, I put together a talking points  
>>> page highlighting some of the new stuff we should be seeing in F11.   
>>> Please take a look and also play around if you like!
>>>
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F11_Talking_Points
>>>       
>> Who is the audience for this? Currently, there is way too many technical  
>> details.
>>     
>
> And there are too many points; this looks more like a restatement of
> the feature list:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList
>
> Really there should only be a small number of talking points, because
> we want to build a coherent, interesting story from the end-user side
> for specific important features.
>
> Here are the features I believe are good candidates for this treatment
> for Alpha and beyond.  Obviously as we move forward it's still
> possible another feature might emerge as a major talking point;
> feature cutoff doesn't happen for quite some time yet for F11.
>
> Users:
> * New volume control
> * maybe Presto/deltaRPMs if that's actually going to happen for F11
> * Fingerprint scanning
>
> Developers:
> * MinGW Windows cross-compiler
>
> Sysadmins:
> * ext4 file system
>
> Community:
> * Moksha and live web app framework
>
> Building a story around each of these features won't be too difficult,
> because they're all compelling, easy for Fedora people to talk about,
> and easy for journalists to understand and write about.
>
>   
Yes, this was the first draft, thanks for the feedback.  I'm going to 
update it throughout the day today.  Also, if anyone else feels like we 
should add or change something please send more feedback or edit the page!

Jack